MEDALISTS UNVEILED AT 2016 STUDENT ACADEMY #AWARDS®

LOS ANGELES, CA
– The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences tonight honored 17
student winners from colleges and universities around the world at the
43rd Student Academy
Awards® ceremony, held at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in
Beverly Hills. The Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal awards were announced
and presented by actors Joel Edgerton, Lucy Liu, Daisy Ridley and Parker
Sawyers. The 2016 Student Academy Award®winners are:Alternative
Gold: “All These Voices,” David Henry Gerson, American Film Institute
Silver: “Cloud Kumo,” Yvonne Ng, City College of New York
Bronze: “The Swan Girl,” Johnny Coffeen, Maharishi University of Management

Foreign Narrative
Gold: “Invention of Trust,” Alex Schaad, University of Television and Film Munich (Germany)
Silver: “Where the Woods End,” Felix Ahrens, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF (Germany)
Bronze: “Tenants,” Klara Kochanska, The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz (Poland)

New this year, the Foreign Film category was expanded to include
separate awards for narrative, animation and documentary entries. All
categories had three potential placements except for the Foreign
Animation and Foreign Documentary categories, in which only Gold Medal
awards were given.

The Student Academy Awards were established in 1972 to provide a
platform for emerging global talent by creating opportunities within the
industry to showcase their work. Past Student Academy Award winners
have gone on to receive 51 Oscar® nominations and have won or
shared nine awards. They include Pete Docter, John Lasseter, @#SpikeLee, Trey Parker and @RobertZemeckis.